Dr. Rainer Funk: The Art of Living

Rainer Funk is Director of the Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen, Co-Director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin, and a practicing psychoanalyst based in Tuebingen, Germany. He is Erich Fromm’s sole Literary Executor and among his publications are the 10-volume German edition of Erich Fromm Collected Works (1980 and 1981; expanded to 12-volumes in 1999). In this episode, we discuss the first time Rainer met Erich Fromm, Fromm's nuanced approach to religion, Fromm's relevance for the 21st century and much more.